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Rocky III: A lean looking Rocky fights Mr. T, and wins a very tough bout. Rocky then trains with Apollo Creed but the more they train the more Rocky's fitness deteriorates and in the rematch Mr. T beats the seven colours of crap out of Rocky. Afterwards, Mr. T rubs it in by trash talking Rocky every time he sees him.

Memento is already backwards. 🙂

Titanic: a group of refugees, stranded in the freezing Atlantic, are saved when a huge luxury submarine surfaces nearby and takes them to England. Remember the no politics rule before replying to this one 😄

The diffuser might be quite effective (and is a very good point) and the idea of directing energetic exhaust air over the back wing is, I believe, a reason why F1 used it for a while. It would be the same benefit as blown flaps. For a road car like the McLaren, as you say, the blown wing's effectiveness on a road car is debatable. For one thing, I think the F1 cars using upward exiting exhausts were normally aspirated. The McLaren has a pair of turbos upstream, sapping as much energy as they can from the exhaust gasses. So, a relatively feeble breeze puffing out over the not particularly large wing. Secondly, the volume and velocity of the exhaust gasses will vary wildly with revs and throttle opening. Easy enough to manage in the relatively controlled environment of a race track where you can tell the driver that they will get more downforce and more traction if they bury the throttle earlier, much less dependable or predictable on a public road with a non-professional driver where, on the same corner on two consecutive days they might have maximum blown effect one day, and no blown effect the next. The difference between the two extremes needs to be small otherwise the car will be unpredictable to drive.

I think it's because for a while that's where the exhausts were in Formula 1... so, to borrow a somewhat aged and worn out meme, "because race car".. Same with the proliferation of diffusers that do nothing interesting aerodynamically...

I agree. The car belongs to the owner, not to anybody else. If the owner wants to make upgrades in the interests of the safety of themselves and their passengers (and indeed other road users) it's nobody else's business. If the owner is smart they'll find a way, if possible, to make the modifications reversible and keep the original parts so the car can be restored to factory spec should the owner one day wish to sell it to a purist.

Be careful what you wish for... I haven't nicked and uploaded any images because I don't want to muck BM about with copyright challenges, but google Koenig Mondial if you want to know how bad it can get 😄 I think it fits your requirement because it's a bodykit that tries to make a Mondial look like a Testarossa. What would be funny is if someone released a kit that turned a Mondial into a fake MR2

Baur seems to be the most popular source for 2002 convertibles. I don't think any left the factory without a roof. I don't think any left the BMW factory with quad headlamps, either.

Wait I got one. The Back to the Future trilogy watched backwards is a story about a cowboy who discovers an abandoned time machine in a mine. He uses it to travel into the future, where after mucking about with his descendants in 2015, he makes some random couple fall in love in the 1950s, changes the guy's destiny from a cool writer into a loser with a dead-end job, then leaps forward to 1985 and pretends to be their son.

Pulp Fiction backwards is.... Actually it would be pretty much the same story as it is going forwards.

And if you did it before you opened the can you ended up with a sticky ceiling.

Weird thing is, I have a collection of magazine road tests for the Ferrari 308 / 328 / Mondial ranges, written when the cars were current Ferrari models. It is amazing how perceptions have changed. The 328 was much more highly regarded than the 308, with better handling, brakes and drivability. And it was one of the quickest production cars on the planet. The Mondial also got a lot of praise. In particular its longer wheelbase was often mentioned as making it a better handling, more progressively balanced car than its 308 / 328 contemporary. And one word hardly ever used to describe the Mondial, unlike today, was "slow". It was generally described as near in performance to its two seater brother. A few testers thought the Mondial was the better choice, with similar thrills, more forgiving but still enjoyable handling, good performance and better practicality. When I see modern day drive tests of the Mondial they always mention how slow it is and it really has a terrible reputation, regardless of which Mondial they are driving. Meanwhile the 308 is revered while the 328 is largely forgotten. From the two in the picture I'd pick the 308 for the looks but I'd be very happy with a Mondial too! I see a similar swing with the Lotus Esprit Turbo V8. Nowadays every test I see of one mentions that the car was held back, because the gearbox was the weak link so the engine had to be detuned to 350bhp. In period, the gearbox itself caught criticism for being unpleasant to use, but no tester ever said it could do with more power. I distinctly remember one road test describing the V8 engine as a "force of nature".

Very beautiful finish on that. Excellent build!

I think a couple of the ships that were supposed to be radio beacons for her on the route were US Navy? I'd guess the classified records are transcripts from them perhaps (though I also think they are already in the public domain) I'm not expecting any conspiracies to be unveiled, which probably means that's exactly what will happen 😂

Two aircraft that would be very hard to describe as form over function 🙂